Yesterday, as many times before, my husband and I visited La Locanda in Aalborg. We have been there many times since the restaurant opened – and indeed we will keep on coming along to enjoy what we would call an “honest meal made with great...creativity and Italian love”.
We have had dinner at many, many - both Danish and European (particularly Italian) - restaurants throughout the years. So the following is written with a great deal of happy experience in the stomach :-)
We always get back to La Locanda – not only because the food is outstanding; even compared to the finest Roman restaurants. Many hign-end restaurants, recent years, have changed their meals to “bits of taste”. Nothing wrong with that – but bits of taste are not meals. They are “bits of taste” and nothing else. At La Locanda, they haven’t forgotten what a “real meal” means:
A real meal is meant to bring people together in joy, cosy happiness and gratitude; and indeed this is what the Italian chef and owner, Carlo Liberati, at La Locanda is mastering most beautifully. Now, La Locanda’s meals, while they are “real”, are as well as sophisticated and creative – and beautiful to look at – as the finest “starry bits of taste” at restaurants both in Denmark and abroad. In addition, I would underline: At La Locanda, there is always something new at the menu. You never get bored with their menu. They have their specials always ready, but besides from those, they change the menu about every month – mirroring, and honoring - the freshness of the season’s ingredients.
Finally, at La Locanda, they bring together real meals and great Italian wines in a most elegant way. La Locanda is blessed with one of the finest sommeliers in Europe, Mariarita Liberati, who never fails to bring you a wine that accompany, underline and enhance your Italian meal in a classy, yet always surprising way.
Our finest recommendations to Carlo & Lida + Mariarita and all the professional, yet relaxed and friendly staff. Jens and Bente MariaMore